RDMA/mlx5: Cache all user cacheable mkeys on dereg MR flow
Currently, when dereging an MR, if the mkey doesn't belong to a cache entry, it will be destroyed. As a result, the restart of applications with many non-cached mkeys is not efficient since all the mkeys are destroyed and then recreated. This process takes a long time (for 100,000 MRs, it is ~20 seconds for dereg and ~28 seconds for re-reg). To shorten the restart runtime, insert all cacheable mkeys to the cache. If there is no fitting entry to the mkey properties, create a temporary entry that fits it. After a predetermined timeout, the cache entries will shrink to the initial high limit. The mkeys will still be in the cache when consuming them again after an application restart. Therefore, the registration will be much faster (for 100,000 MRs, it is ~4 seconds for dereg and ~5 seconds for re-reg). The temporary cache entries created to store the non-cache mkeys are not exposed through sysfs like the default cache entries. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230125222807.6921-6-michaelgur@nvidia.comSigned-off-by: Michael Guralnik <michaelgur@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
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